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August 8, 2025, 9:15 PM
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Joanna Stern / Joanna Stern's Newsletter:
OpenAI says ChatGPT Pro users can select old models for now but plans to deprecate them in 60 days; Sam Altman says Plus users will be able to keep using GPT-4o  —  Mourning the model that knew you best. … RIP, ChatGPT 4o and the rest of the crew.  —  I won't say I'm deeply attached to GPT-4o, OpenAI's previous main model.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
With GPT-5's launch, OpenAI has removed its older models from the ChatGPT model selector for some users, sparking backlash from them  —  ‘They have completely ruined ChatGPT,’ one user complains.  Some are even canceling their paid subscriptions to ChatGPT, claiming GPT-5 is inferior to the company's previous models.
Cecily Mauran / Mashable:
GPT-5's system card says gpt-5-thinking has a hallucination rate of 4.5% with browsing enabled, compared to gpt-5-main's 9.6%, GPT-4o's 12.9%, and o3's 12.7%
Jay Peters / The Verge:
During its GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts that had scales all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one “a mega chart screwup from us”
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI touts GPT-5's scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, and 46.2% on HealthBench Hard
Lip-Bu Tan / Intel:
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan tells his employees the company is engaging with the Trump administration to address concerns about him and “ensure they have the facts”  —  A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.  —  The following note from Lip-Bu Tan was sent …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
As Trump targets Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, a look at his VC firm Walden International, which has invested $5B+ in 600+ companies, with 100+ in China, including SMIC
Joel Khalili / Wired:
President Trump orders regulators to investigate banks for “politicized or unlawful debanking”, echoing allegations from conservatives and the crypto industry  —  In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks …
Sarah Min / CNBC:
Trump signs an EO clearing a path for adding alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies to 401(k)s, directing the US Secretary of Labor to review guidance
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more  —  Google announced on Friday that it's giving Google Finance, its tool that provides financial information and business news, an AI update.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Sam Altman says OpenAI should prioritize growth and its investments in training and compute “for a long time”, even if it delays its path to profitability  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday said the artificial intelligence company should prioritize growth and its investments …
Rishaj Upadhyay / Windows Report:
Microsoft will phase out its Lens scanner app, launched in 2014 as Office Lens, starting in September; users can create new scans in the app only until December  —  Popular scanner app to retire soon  —  Microsoft is preparing to sunset another long-running product alongside the end of life for Windows 10 this year.
Financial Times:
Sources: the US has started issuing licenses to Nvidia to export H20 chips to China following weeks of inaction, after Jensen Huang met Trump on Wednesday  —  Jensen Huang personally lobbied president after he reversed course on sale of H20 chips  —  The US commerce department …
Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:
Coinbase rolls out DEX trading in its app for US users, excluding New York state, starting with assets on the Base network, with Solana support “coming soon”  —  The company is moving to become an “everything exchange,” its CEO said.  —  In brief
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
Sources: Periodic Labs, which is building AI for material science, is raising $200M led by a16z, valuing the company at $1B before the investment  —  Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has agreed to lead a $200 million investment in Periodic Labs, a new startup building artificial intelligence …

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The NYT says “a correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition” after a print headline “misstated” NATO's name as the “North American Treaty Organization”

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Earlier Picks

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple says Apple Intelligence will use OpenAI's GPT-5 on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, with the software updates expected to arrive in September
Wall Street Journal:
An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100+ lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' false claims
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